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Mar 6, 2016
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Mostly raw clips except for correcting strong fisheye distortion generated by one of the cameras. Both shoot 1080P but this is scaled to 720P due to bandwidth constraints. One camera is a cheap go-pro clone (semi-fisheye lens) , the other an old variable lens handheld video camera with a broken monitor screen cable. Lens kept zoomed all the way out on that one. Fisheye better up close, other camera better at night so both used. Action details: On the 5th of March, the racist "National...
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Jun 11, 2018
06/18
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Bianca Palmisano
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At 11PM on the 9th of June, No Justice No Pride marched from 2nd and K sts in DC to give the cops something else to do besides hassling sex workers. Video cropped from Bianca Palmisano's Twitter video.
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Feb 2, 2016
02/16
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On the 2nd of February, a number of immigrant rights groups held a "Stop the Raids" press conference outside the White House before delivering over 130,000 signed petitions. The petitions were actually accepted by two White House staffers and sniffewd by the dog before being taken inside. Usually White House petition deliveries are refused, and often that leads to civil disobedience blockades. Before the delivery, speaker after speaker denounced the frankly terroristic raids on...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, immigration
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Apr 2, 2015
04/15
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On the 2nd of April, Residents of MD staged a rally in Annapolis demanding the enactment of a moratorium on gas fracking in the state. Although weakened limiting the moratorium to two years, the bill passed the MD House of Delegates by a veto-proof majority. Pressure is mounting on MD's GOP Governor Hogan to sign the bill once it clears the Senate, the overwhelming passage in the House of Delegates involved suppport from delegates of both political parties. One of them spoke at the rally...
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Aug 13, 2014
08/14
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On the 12th of August, rain fell at thunderstorm intensity from early morning until mid-afternoon. That evening at almost 6PM, Beach Drive near Kensington Parkway was submerged under about 3 feet of water. Nearby residents told the TV News they had never seen anything like it. I did see one cyclist cross Beach Drive-wading though water up to his knees, thus the depth estimate. This is yet another example of the extreme weather that climate change is making more common and more severe.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, weather.flooding
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Dec 27, 2014
12/14
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Video of political protests and activsm spanning 2014 in Washington DC
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Apr 29, 2015
04/15
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On the 28th of April, as the curfew threatened peaceful protesters in Baltimore, solidarity protests began in DC. Protesters marched on the White House, only to find Obama's answer to the Question of Baltimore was to barricade the White House. Later a surprise "pop-up" protest blockaded 14th and U sts, and grew over time as bystanders joined in to reinforce the blockade.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, DCFerguson, Freddie Grey
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Sep 13, 2016
09/16
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At 7AM on the 12th of September, the Trump Hotel opened for business in the Old Post Office building,with a 99 year lease trump got thanks to help from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. Protesters were outside opposing both the racism of Donald Trump and the giveaway of public property to this billionaire. Word is suites will be rented out for $500,000 a night on Inuaguration night, and normal rooms on normal nights for $800 with a 4 night minimum. None of those who rebuilt the Old Post Office building...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, Trump Hotel
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Nov 14, 2014
11/14
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On the 13th of November, net neutrality activists responded to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's defiance of Obama's new pro-net neutrality position.They showed up at FCC headquarters for a party under cold rain mixed with snow, then took over the doorway in front of the building. Interestingly, only three security guards were able to respond to the call for help from the two or three guards inside, with the result that the effort by security guards to repulse the protesters was defeated and the...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, FCC, net neutrality
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Apr 15, 2016
04/16
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Cassandra Fairbanks
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Video posted by Cassandra Fairbanks to Twitter of US Capitol Police ordering support protesters for Democracy Spring sit-in #4 to leave the area. Protesters stand their ground. Unknown if any of today's arrests were of the solidarity protesters
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Democracy Spring
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Nov 30, 2014
11/14
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On the 29th of November, DC Ferguson protesters marched through Georgetown and shut down the streets. When the march headed out of Georgetown, marchers transitioned from the sidewalks to block shoppers who did not drive in from reaching the doors of upscale stores.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Ferguson, #DCFerguson
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Jun 11, 2014
06/14
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On the 10th of June, members of multiple antiwar groups and a Muslim advocacy group showed up in front of the White House to welcome former POW Bowe Bergdahl's release, the release of 5 detainees from Gitmo, and condemn the vicious smear campaign the GOP has been mounting against Bowe. The activists demanded that the rest of the GITMO detainees be released as well, and one suggested trading them for the 3 US civilians currently being held by the Taliban. Another reminded everyone that prisoner...
Topics: Bowe Bergdahl, POW, dcdirectactionnews
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Jun 30, 2017
06/17
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On the 29th of June, Metro bus and rail riders gathered outside the Columbia Heights Metro station to demand an end to fare hikes and service cuts, and that big developers and businesses that depend on Metrorail to make their billions pay their fare share of the cost of keeping the system running. A specific demand was a flat $2 fare for both bus and rail, and the restoration of late-night service. Metro's riders were backed by ATU Local 689, which represented Metro's workers, the folks without...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, WMATA
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Jun 14, 2016
06/16
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On the 13th of June, the Toxic Prison March blockaded streets in front of the Bureau of Prisons, the FBI, and the Dept of Injustice after marching through rush hour traffic. Their primary demand was that proposed Federal supermax prisons at Letcher, KY and at Thomson, IL be cancelled as one site is a moutaintop removal site and the other a military Superfund site. Further demands included the release of ALL prisoners and closure of every prison on the continent. Many times in the march, chants...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, prisons, toxic waste
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Aug 19, 2017
08/17
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More raw video from Charlottesville showing the Nazis in their various factions up close. Pay attention to the guy with the red beard circled near the end: he is wanted for a serious assault near the police sta
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Charlottesville
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Apr 26, 2015
04/15
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Protesters outside the police station near the Gilmor Homes housing development stick it to the cops for breaking Freddie Grey's neck.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Baltimore, Freddie Grey
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Jun 15, 2018
06/18
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On the 14th of June, migrant rights activists gathered for the "Families Belong Together" protest against the Trump/Sessions policy of separating families at the border, where screaming children are dragged away from their parents. DHS has admitted the sole purpose of this intentional torture of children is to deter others from crossing the border. Many of the protesters invoked Nazi Germany and called Trump's policy "evil." Note that the backing track at the start of this...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, immigration
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Jul 30, 2016
07/16
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Video of DC's Critical Mass bike ride for July 2016
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, cycling, biking.Critical Mass
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Jun 10, 2016
06/16
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On the 10th of June, Donald Trump spoke before the "Road to Majority" conference, an event sponsored by the allegedly faith-based far-right group Concerned Women for America. Outside, protesters called out the hypocrisy of this, given that all major religions condemn the kind of xenophobia and hate Trump is peddling. About ten minutes into Trump's speech, Code Pink activists disrupted him and were expelled by force. Concerned Women for America is a notorious hate group themselves,...
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Jun 22, 2018
06/18
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Philip Louis
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On June 22, Homeland Security secretarty Kirstjen Nielson got an early morning surprise at her Alexandria townhouse. Before she could leave for work, protesters showed up playing audio of the children she helped to separate from their parents.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, immigration
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Jan 27, 2017
01/17
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On the 26th of January, Donald Trump appeared at a 3 day GOP retreat in downtown Philiadelphia just blocks from the historic City Hall building. Several thousand protesters marched to the police barricades just one block away. Three issues dominated the protests: healthcare, the Keystone/DAPL pipeline executive orders, and Trump's racist wall/sanctuary city/deportation executive orders. This march was originally organized by supporters of the ACA and by AIDS activists who fear that chaos in...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, Philadelphia
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Jan 16, 2017
01/17
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On the 15th of January, refusefascism.org staged the second of their nightly street marches that begin with a 4PM rally at McPherson Square. This march went through Chinatown and then on to Trump Hotel. A tense confrontation ensued marchers surging against the hotel's barricades as security guards strained to hold them back. Eventually more guards and cops reinforced the barricade, foreclosing the possiblity of pushing through and storming the hotel-for that night. The march then left the...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, RefuseFascism.org
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Feb 10, 2015
02/15
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On the 10th of February, net neutrality activsts unfurled a banner reading "85% of republican voters support net neutrality" in front of Republican FCC commissioner Pai at an FCC press conference. In response they were tackled and assaulted by security guards, who in turn threatened to charge THEM with assault. FCC Commission Tom Wheeler (used to work for Cable TV) now says he is for Title II "common carrier" reclassification of ISP's, but Comcast and other ISP's are...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, net neutrality, FCC
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May 1, 2020
05/20
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Jane Recker's video of the ShutdownDC motorcade driving laps around the White House
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Mayday
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May 1, 2020
05/20
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Jane Recker
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On Mayday, International Workers's Day, truck drivers lined their rigs up on Constitution Ave to protest unfair pay and pay gouging by brokers.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Mayday
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Oct 14, 2016
10/16
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On the 13th of October, the mainstream press was buzzing about the five women who have come forward to declare that they were sexually assaulted by Donald Trump. On that same day, hundreds picketed Trump's brand new luxury hotel in DC over yet another crime by Donald Trump: his flat refusal to honor the outcome of an election by workers at his Las Vegas hotel to seek union representation. At the Oct 13 picket, UNITE HERE called for a boycott of Trump's Old Post Office Hotel over his defiance of...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, UNITE HERE
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Dec 1, 2014
12/14
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On the 1st of December, Ferguson protesters blocked the 14th st Bridge for about 1/2 hour in AM rush hour. This was the day after a similar protest blocked I-395 on perhaps the busiest travel day of the year. There was one ugly incident involving a motorist in an expensive Mercedes who tried to push through the blockade but was stopped. This was shortly after another motorist was allowed to pass after saying he was going to a dialysis appointment. Apparently letting one car pass made other...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Ferguson, #DCFerguson
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Jul 8, 2016
07/16
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Christine Kim
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Video originally uploaded by Christine Kim to Twitter of Black Lives Matter march near the US Capitol that had originated at the White House.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Black Lives Matter
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Mar 18, 2019
03/19
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On the 16th of March, protesters marched from the White House to Trump Hotel and finally the Inter-American Development Bank, opposing US intervention in Venezuala. A much smaller group of counterprotesters siding with Venezuala's rival, US backed, self-declared, fake "president" Juan Guaidó also showed up. There were some arguments at the very start, then police separated the two groups. There was no fighting or violence at all. Protesters opposing US intervention were well aware...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Venezuala
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Dec 26, 2018
12/18
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Melissa Barlow
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Video posted by Melissa Barlow on Twitter of speaker condemning Trump for the death of an 8 year old boy in Border Patrol hands. Speech delivered at the Dec 25 "Kremlin Annex" protest outside the White House
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, #KremlinAnnex
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May 2, 2018
05/18
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On the 1st of May, DC's annual Mayday march proceeded from Columbia Heights to Malcolm X Park. Sights at the march and following rally included "Donald Trump" wearing a crown and a "back to work" sign, various union-themed games, and even a mock guillotine symbolic of the 1789 French Revolution. Expected fascist counterprotesters were a no-show and the entire event was uneventful and mostly family-friendly. It was announced during the DC march that at that time (noon...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Mayday
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Sep 21, 2016
09/16
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jlstewct
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Representatives of the International Indigenous Youth Council have called on Senator Barrasso, chair of the Indian Affairs Committee, to hold a hearing on the Dakota Access Pipeline. He has refused to do so. On Sep 20, Youth Council representatives and allies delivered a message loud and clear to Barrasso's office.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, #NoDAPL, DAPL
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Jul 29, 2014
07/14
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On the 28th of July, immigrants, many of them students who received legal status because they were brought into the US as young children, showed up in front of the White House. They demanded that Obama "go big" and act unilaterally to provide legal status for their parents by executive action, thus bypassing GOP obstruction. Also present were many GLBT immigrants demanding similar relief for their partners or them
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, immigration, DREAM
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May 7, 2014
05/14
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On the 7th of May, Internet neutrality activists showed up in front of FCC headquarters, announcing the start of a 3 day presence. They are demanding that the FCC reclassify all Internet Service Providers as "common carriers" like phone companies are supposed to be
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, net neutrality, Occupy
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Feb 26, 2016
02/16
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Code Pink
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(video originally posted to Youtube by Code Pink) On the 26th of February, Code Pink released video of Medea Benjamin confronting US Secretary of State Kerry over US sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is a Wahhabi theocracy known for whippings and beheadings, with few differences for its subjects from living in Daesh's so-called "caliphate." They spend billions gotten from the world oil market on promoting their fundamentalist visions in Muslim communities around the world...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Code Pink, Kerry
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Dec 10, 2018
12/18
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On the 7th of December, members of a far-right group posted several stickers on the backs of street signs in DC, then published deceptive close-up photos making them look much larger. The next day they held an unannounced march in DC. That night, a DC activist followed the online posts to the offensive stickers, ripped them down, and burned the one that came down in large enough pieces.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake
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Jan 16, 2017
01/17
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This is a promo for the upcoming #DisruptJ20 Counterinaugural protests using a WWII theme since Trump has been compared to Hitler by neo-Nazis themselves. As we stood against Fascism before, now it is time to stand against Fascism again. Let's not be "Good Germans" who stand by while millions are rounded up(as per Trump's deportation plans), let's rise up and meet the assault head-on!
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, DisruptJ20, #DisruptJ20
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Nov 24, 2016
11/16
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This is a remix with music and some added, DC-specific clips of the Crimethinc/Anonymous video promoting the massive #DisruptJ20 Counterinaugural protests scheduled for Friday, January 20, 2017. Trump is a racist and a fascist, now is the time to fight him. Join the Resistance! Crimethinc has directly asked everyone to spread the word
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, #DisruptJ20, counterinaugural, Trump
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May 22, 2014
05/14
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Better quality video file in 540x960 (540P) resolution , otherwise same video as https://archive.org/details/ObamaPotomacKXL5192014360p Keystone XL protest at an Obama fundraiser in ultra-rich Potomac, MD. The motorcade's road shutdowns caused massive traffic jams but the motorcade still had to pass the protesters! (event took place May 19th)
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Keystone XL
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Nov 7, 2014
11/14
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On the 6th of November, net neutrality protesters showed up at the White House demanding Obama fire or demote FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, a former Cable TV company lobbyist In the face of extreme public opposition to his plans to allow "paid prioritization" or website-paid Internet fast lanes, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is attempting to use a "compromise" to reclassify Internet Service Providers as something other than neutral common carriers. Net Neutrality is a crucial...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, net neutrality
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Aug 29, 2016
08/16
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On the 28th of August DCRally4Refugees held a mixed concert/speaking event at Sylvan Theater near the Washington Monument. Bands alternated with speakers as organizers sought to raise funds and connect people with groups active on refugee issues. They pointed out that more people have been displaced from their homes now than ever before, and due to the war in Syria the total number of international refugees has now topped 20 million. A tiny number of Trump supporters tried to counterprotest...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, refugees, DCrally4Refugees
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Mar 14, 2018
03/18
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On the 13th of March, Kurds and supporters of the YPG/YPJ protested at the White House, demanding the US force an end to Turkey's bloody invasion and bombing of Afrin in Syria. If the US threatened to cut off military aid and weapons sales to Turkey, Turkey would have no choice but to comply. Turkey is attacking the YPG/YPJ, who in turn defeated Daesh/ISIS. Thus Erdogan is fighting on the side of ISIS. At this time Turkish troops are reported to be on the outskirts of Afrin, a city they had...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Kurdistan
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Jan 12, 2015
01/15
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On January 11, 2002, the unlawful prison at Guantanimo Bay opened for business. On January 11, 2015 it was still in business even though President Obama vowed six years ago to close it. As on every January 11th back to 2007, a long line of protesters in orange jumpsuits and black hoods marched to demand the closure of Gitmo. About half the detainees at Gitmo have been cleared for release, with investigators finding no connection to terrorism. Still, the US government refuses to release them,...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Guantanimo Bay, Gitmo
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Aug 8, 2014
08/14
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5 second clip of confrontation between Syria/Iraq/Gaza "Protest4Unity" and Zionist counterprotesters. Cut from UntoldCarslysle's 1 hour 46 second Unstream video while it was airing live. Severe bandwidth issues meant this was all I got! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/untoldcarlisle?utm_campaign=ustre.am&utm_source=ustre.am%2F1c8mP
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Gaza, Syria, Iraq
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Apr 10, 2019
04/19
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Julian Dion G
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On the 9th of April, the go-go music was back on at the 7th and Fl Ave MetroPCS store in DC. Efforts by a wealthy resident of the nearby Shay had failed, and people were celebrating. That evening, a huge crowd gathered on U st for go-go in what had been meant to be a protest but became a celebration Video cut down from raw (vertical) clip originally posted to Twitter by Julian Dion G
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, #dontmutedc
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Mar 17, 2018
03/18
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DC Direct Action News
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Footage from the March 11 protest at the home of the FDA's director, after dark as police showed up. ADAPT was there to demand that the FDA release regulations prohibiting electric shock "aversive therapy" nationwide in institutions for the disabled. The only such institution in the US is the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC). Backing music at the start is my own original composition, arrangement, and performance.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, ADAPT
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Aug 16, 2019
08/19
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CommonDreams.org
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Video cut/zoomed from vertical video published by CommonDreams.org of security removing a scaled-down copy of the Statue of Liberty from in front of the DC headquarters of US Citizenship and Immigration "Service." The statue was removed after USCIS acting director Ken Cuccinelli took a selfie with it, carefully cropping out the inscription at the base welcoming migrants.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, immigration
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Dec 12, 2015
12/15
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DC Direct Action News
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On the 10th of December, activists projected huge images on the sides of the World Bank's headquarters to protest a half-billion dollar loan to Uzbekistan for their cotton industry. Uzbekistan's cotton producers were called out for using child labor and forced labor. The production of cotton with slave labor was supposedly stopped in 1865 by the Civil War in the US, yet the World Bank is lending US tax dollars for the same thing in Uzbekistan today.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, World Bank
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May 2, 2016
05/16
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On Mayday (May 1), the annual Mayday march from Malcolm X Park to the White House too to the streets. It included demands that ICE be expelled from DC, that the TPP trade deal never be ratifed, and that area stores respect the Driscolls Berries boycott. The other march began at Marbury Plaza where Alonzo Smith was murdered by "special police" in Anacostia and ended at the 7D police station. The march from Malcolm X Park included an antifascist contingent due in part to prior...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Mayday, anticapitalism
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May 14, 2014
05/14
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DC Direct Action News
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On the 13th of May, DC residents opposing filling in McMillan Park protested outside the Zoning commission, then packed the hearing. McMillan Park was once DC's water filtration facility and is now a large parcel of green space. There are those who want to build condos with the "affordable" portion starting at $60,000 a year to qualify, plus office towers and some kind of health facility right next to Washington Hospital Center. This kind of green space is becoming increasingly rare,...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, gentrification, development, corruption
